Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others.

Here is a screenshot of google.com page in early 1997 (as you might notice Linuxspecific resources search was available from the beginning, unfortunately I didn’t find any information when BSD related search become available):

Hrmm that was weird, my remark got eaten. Anyway I wanted to say that it’s nice to know that someone else also talked about this as I had trouble finding the same information elsewhere. This was the first place that instructed me the answer. Thanks.

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